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leaders Hope to Place Candidates In Court House After Many Years Of Patient and Prayerful Waiting 9 J.M.LONTZ GUIDES CONVENTION

Hagfrstown Friends Peeved When Frank Geisler Is Defeated fVir Treasurer by W. S. Hunt. Lively Contest Marks Selection of Boren for Representative to Legislature. Two Ballots Needed to Nominate Burris for Auditor Over Ed Fulle of Richmond. Drischell Has Everything His Own Way for Sheriff. Picket Wins Assessor's Nomination in a Spirited Race.

A county ticket, declared by party leaders to be well balanced and one which will make a strong appeal to the voters of Wayne county, was selected yesterday at Centerville by a Democratic convention which operated as smoothly and rapidly as clockwork tinder the guiding hand of John M. J-ontz, of Richmond. The convention was featured by lively contests for nominations for Sheriff, auditor, treasurer, assessor and i representative. There were four en-1 tries each in the auditor and representative races, three in the sheriff p ierby, and two contestants each for j assessor and treasurer. j The defeat of Frank Geisler of Ha- j gerstown by W. S. Hunt of Cambridge City for nomination as treasurer provoked some ill feeling, several of the Jlagerstown candidates's friends declaring him to be the victim of a double-cross, but as a whole, the ticket Avas selected without seriously disturbing the "new harmony" spirit of .'Wayne county Democracy. While Democratic successes in jWayne county have been scarce In the j ipresent Democratic era as they were j in the lean years of Bryan leadership, j jthe faithful of the old party in this ' jcounty are not the least discouraged, In fact, they believe that now they ; 'have a chance finally to bring about j a victory in . the stronghold of the j Indiana Progressive party. This was evidenced by the earnest endeavors j ot numerous party workers to crowd I themselves aboard the county ticket, a i spectacle never witnessed before at a Democratic convention in Wayne county. Chairman John Harper and Secretary Julius Grosvenor had some difficulty yesterday afternoon in guiding the convention into a straight .channel, but under the experienced directions of Mr. Lontz, the cumbersome machinery was soon working in jig time, and the ticket was selected within two hours. Only one speech was tolerated, that by Thomas J. Study, veteran barrister, who was unanimously nominated for judge of the cirruit court, and the nominating speeches were brief and to the point. Even the resolutions were condensed jo about four paragraphs, and the red lape of naming committees on permanent organization and credentials was Jlspensed with.

Committee Dissatisfied With Bond's Water Revenue Plan ,

Commercial Club Body Believes Under Supplementary Brief Provisions No General Reduction in Rates for Consumer Would Be Possible and That To Secure a Reduction the City Would Have to Pay a Greater Per Cent of Revenue.

"President Seidel, W. H. Bradbury iind myself, representing the Commercial Club, and W. A. Bond, Alfred Davis and C. E. Marlatt, representing the city, met last night to discuss .rates for the Richmond City Water Works company," said C. W. Jordan, .secretary of the Commercial Club, tojday, "but we never got to the subject. (There were so many side issues to the jquestion discussed that it is almost Impossible to outline the various topics considered. As a matter of fact little or nothing was accomplished." 1 City Attorney P .nd had planned to jflle with the State Public Utilities Commission Friday a schedule of jvater rates acceptable to the city, but jit has been decided that such action '"will not be taken for the time being. Supplementary Brief. Mowever, Mr. Bond will file with the Commission Friday a supplementary brief containing points not brought out in the first brief submitted by the I city attorney. "This supplementary brief was not considered in full at the meeting last night," said Mr. Jordan, "but the sections discussed met with the approval of the Commercial Club members with the exception of that pertaining to the revenue the company is to derive from the city and the consumers. Mr. Bond proposed that the city should pay 20 per cent of the revenue and the consumers 79 per cent. "It was the opinion of the commitrteemen that under such an arrangeooent no general reducUon in the

In the forenoon the joint Wayne and Union convention to nominate a candidate for joint senator was held, and Dr. C. I. Stotelmyer of Hagerstown was victorious over Albert Bell of Union county, the alleged candidate of the Taggart faction. Even the "gumshoe" work of Judge George Gray, Fayette county Taggart leader, in behalf of Bell failed to benefit him. The liveliest contest at the afternoon convention was for representative, there being four candidates, Robert Boren, New Garden; Alvin Threewits, Abington; Gene Harris, New Garden, and Dr. M. C. Benham, tho latter one of the veteran party workers of the county and an "eleventh hour" candidate. After three ballots Boren was victorious. The first ballot resulted as follows: Benham, 38; Threewits, 24; Harris, 15; Boren, 45. Necessary to choice, 62. Second ballot: Benham, 44; Threewits, 18; Harris, 11; Boren 51. Vote by Townships. Abington, 2, Boren; Boston, 2, Boren; Center, 3 Benham, 4 Boren; Clay, 4 Boren; Dalton, 2 Boren; Franklin, 2 Boren; Greene, 4 Boren; Jackson, 6 Benham, 6 Boren; Jefferson, 3 Benham, 3 Boren; Harrison, 2 Boren; New Garden, 3 Harris, 3 Boren; Perry, 2 Boren; Webster, 2 Boren; Washington, 6 Boren; Wayne, 37 Benham, 4 Threewits, 1 Harris, 24 Boren. Totals, Boren 65, Benham, 49, Threewits 4, Harris 1. Two ballots were required to nominate Joseph Burris of Center township for auditor, over Ed Full, Richmond; W. H. Glidewell, Franklin, and D. D. Doyle, Richmond. For this nomination B. F. Wissler ,of Cambridge City had announced himself, but at the last minute withdrew and his name was not presented. No cause was assigned. Vote For Auditor. The first ballot resulted: Fulle, 33; Burris, 51; Doyle, 24; Glidewell, 11. Second ballot: Abington, Burris 2; Boston, Burris 2; Center, Burris 6; spirited contest for treasurer. GeisClay, Doyle 4; Dalton, Burris 2; Franklin, Burris 2; Greene, Glidewell 2, Doyle 2; Jackson, Burris 12; Jefferson, Burris 2; Glidewell 1, Doyle 3; Harrison, Burris 2; New Garden, Fulle 1, Burris 3; Perry, Burris 2; Webster, Burris 2; Washington, Bur-

Continued on Page Six. rates to the consumers would be possible; that to secure such a reduction the city would have to pay a greater per cent of the revenue. See Other Changes. "Committeemen admitted, however, that Mr. Bond might be right, for he had made a much more careful study of the question than the members of the committee, but the committeemen pointed out that their contention was substantiated by most of the authorities, one authority even asserting that the city would have to pay at least 45 per cent of the revenue to guarantee substantial rate reductions to the consumers. This was generally regarded too high, however.", Mr. Bond for some time has been of the opinion that one per cent of the company's revenue would be necessary for depreciation, but it was decided at the meeting last night that one-half of one per cent would be sufficient. Pickell's Figures. Principal Pickell of the high school recently ascertained, by mathematical process, at the request of Mr. Bond and the Commercial tdub . officials, that by setting aside one-half of one per cent of the yearly revenue for a period of sixty years, the generally ac epted life of such a plant, there would be a fund at that time sufficient to reconstruct the plant. The state commission is not expected to hand down its decision regarding water rates for Richmond for at least a month or six weeks.

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MOTHER OF SIX CHILDREN SEEKS HER OWN MOTHER

Mattie Barnes, now grown up, and a mother of six, is searching for her mother, a Quakeress, who, in 1882, left her with a family in Richmond, because she could not support her. She is now Mrs. Maude Lawton of 2150 Horton avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich. "I am quite an old girl trying to find a 'mamma, but I think I have one somewhere," she says in a letter to the Palladium. "A verydear lady by the name of Lucinda Kelly adopted me from a TRIES SUICIDE Mil IS LOST Harvey Davis, Hoilansburg, Found By Boys in Time to Save Life. HOLLANSBURG, Ohio, April 15. High school seniors stopping to inquire about class pictures, found Harvey E. Davis, a batchelor photographer and inventor, lying unconscious and almost lifeless in his studio with a bottle labeled chloroform and a cup and spoon beside him to complete the story. He is believed to have administered the chloroform at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon and was not revived to consciousness until yesterday morning. Mr. Davis occupies a house alone with his studio in the rear. The high school boys passed through the house to the studio where they found the body and the chloroform bottle. Physicians were hastily summoned and worked over him tor several hours but he did not return to consciousness until between 2 and 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Davis, a bachelor about 45. years old, is an inventor and an artist of more than usual ability, but he has been hampered from childhood by total deafness caused by sickness, and this, with other misfortunes, one being the alleged theft oi his Invention of steering gear for automobiles, are thought to be the cause of the unfortunate affair. CLEAR JONEYWELL Ministers to Answer Gordon's "Who Is Honeywell." Evangelist Honeywell will be vindicated in a statement which will be issued for publication tomorrow by the evangelistic committee of the Ministerial association, consisting of Rev. Truman Kenworth, B. Earl Parker and R. C. Leonard, the committeemen say. The statement will be in answer to J. Bennett Gordon's communication demanding, "Who is Honeywell?" The Rev. Mr. Parker has secured the facts relative to Honeywell's past history from the Rock River Methodist conference, of which Mr. Honeywell has been a member for twenty years. They believe they will clear his name of any shadow of doubt which has arisen through the demand for a revelation of his identity and past. WEATHER FORECAST f FOR INDIANA Partly cloudy tonight. Thursday fair, and slightly warmer. TEMPERATURE. Noon .50 Yesterday. Maximum 59 Minimum 41

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J. S. S. ARKANSAS. auxiliaries carrying about 17,000 men, fleet would suffice to blow Tampico

Quaker home in Richmond, Ind., about the year 1882. I was then about two years and a half old. My mother left me there as she had no other place for me, and 1 supposed she expected to keep up the payments for me, but failed. So we drifted apart. However, this beautiful woman, Mrs. Kelly, gave me as good a home as any child would want, but as I am a mother now of five dear little girls and one boyriMM& longing for a glimpse at mother or a picture of her." QUAKERS PROTEST ABUSEJF NAME Church Asks Congress to Prohibit Commercial Use of Church Name. Protesting against the commercial use of the term "Quaker," as a trade mark for commodities, nickname for cities and organizations, S. E. Nicholson, editor of the American Friend, was in Washington this week when the bill prohibiting such usage came before the house for the first reading. The Friends church has long been opposed to seeting the name of the church staring them in the face from signs and trade marks and through Mr. Nicholson's efforts have brought the question before Congress. Mr. Nicholson first started the agitation during the summer. While in the East Mr. Nicholson will attend the Federated Council of the Friends church of America. Mr. Nicholson and local leaders of the church believe they will be granted prohibition of abuse of the term "Quaker." COMMISSION MEETS Although Dr. S. E. Smith and other members of the state penal farm commission are in Indianapolis closing up the business in connection with the selection of a site, Dr. Smith said before leaving today that announcement of the choice would not be made for several days.

DOLLAR DAY THE POWER OF THE DOLLAR It Will Be Demonstrated NEXT WEEK WATCH THE PALLADIUM DOLLAR DAY '

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COUNTY SAVES $50 WEEKLY BY USING CONVICTION ROADS Six Prisoners Detailed Daily to Assist Highway Commissioner in R e p a iring Thoroughfares. MEN FIND DELIGHT IN OUTDOOR WORK Road Squad to Be Doubled and County to Slave $100 a j Month From Work on the Highways, Prisoners at work under the direction of road superintendents will save the county about $50 a week. Highway Commissioner Jones believes the work of the prisoners is equal to the work of men he pays 'l a day, and prisoners are entirely satisfied to get the work occasionally, the sheriff says. Six prisoners a day are used, chosen from those sent down from police court. The sheriff will use different men each day, giving all the thirty prisoners a work-out. Commissioner Jones has figured that the work of the men i3 valued to the county at $12 a day. The expense of transporting them each day to the scene of operations is $2, and $2.50 is paid for a guard-. County Saves $7.50. The county is paying forty cents a day for the meals of the prisoners, and heretofore has received no return. With the expense of a guard and the transportation deducted from the value of the prisoners on the roads, the county is saving $7.50 a day on six men. Mr. Jones and the sheriff will cooperate in securing for Sheriff Bayer an automobile to transport prisoners and use in his work; and for Mr. Jones a stone crushing machine. The expense of these two machines including the purchase price will be saved the first year through the use of the prisoners on the roads. Within a few days Commissioner Jones will put at least six more prisoners at work on the roads, keeping twelve at work every day and doubling the saving to the county to 100 a week.

Huerta by Studied Efforts Goads American Government to Demand Reparation For Color Outrages DICTATOR TF"STAND PAT"

Wilson Administration Will Blockade Mexican Ports and Insist on Salute to American Colors. Dreadnoughts on the Way to Tampico with Orders to Take Drastic Measures To Enforce President's Demand. Instructions to Admiral Badger Secret. Navy Department Rushes Preparations To Prepare for Complications Arising from Demonstration. Diplomats Watch Move.

MEXICAN STATUS AT A GLANCE At Washington concentration of American fleet at Tampico stated to be due to repeated insults to "rights and dignity of the United States" including interception of official despatches to Charge O'Shaughnessy. President tells Congress leaders of determination to force Huerta to respect American flag. At Hampton Roads, dreadnoughts of Atlantic fleet sail for Tampico under command of Rear Admiral Badger after he received orders to go any limit to force Huerta to yield. At Mexico City, President Huerta "stands pat" on refusal to salute American flag. WASHINGTON. April 15. Complete blockade of both coasts of Mexico will be the first action taken by the American navy in carrjing out the order of President .Wilson to force President Huerta to respect the American flag. It was learned at the nary department today that all the vessels on the Pacific coast of the United States will be sent to the west coast of Mexico without delay. There ara only a few gunboats available for immediate action in the Pacific in addition to those now in Mexico waters, but these will share in the naval demonstration. It is probable that within ten days every vessel in the American navy in active commission, with the exception of the Asiatic fleet, will be ljing off Mexico ready to commence an active blockade. Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced with pride today that within six minutes of the issu

STUDIED INSULTS TO AMERICAN FLAG PRECIPITATE NAVAL DEMONSTRATION

WASHINGTON. April 15. That the arrest of Paymaster Copp and nine American marines at Tampico last Thursday was but one of a number of studied insults to the American flag by the Huerta government in Mexico, became known today when the state department lifted the embargo on Mexican news for the first time. A memorandum given out by government officials detailed a number of such insults and indicated that the despatch of the Atlantic fleet to Tampico was the result of not one incident but of a score of thrusts at the United States by President Huerta and his officials. For some time past the official memorandum stated that the government of Mexico has seemed to think mere apologies sufficient when the rights of American citizens or the dignity of the government of the United States was involved, and it has apparently made no attempt at reparation or effective correction of serious dereliction of its civil and military officers. After the incident at Tampico it became known today an orderly in uniform from one of the United States ships in the harbor of Vera Cruz, who had been sent ashore to secure the

CARRANZA CALLS CABINET TO DISCUSS CRISIS BETWEEN GEN. HUERTA AND U. S.

CHIHUAHUA, April 15. Gen. Venusiatlno Carranza, provisional president of the Constitutionalists, has called a meeting of his cabinet for this afternoon to decide what attitude his government shall take in the crisis between Huerta and the United States. Carranza refused to discuss the Tampico incident or the activity of the American navy, but his officers predicted that the Constitutional president would decide that the matter at issue is entirely between Huerta and the United States and that Mexico as a nation is not involved in the controversy. The change in sentiment from that which existed a year ago among the Constitutionalists is apparent today. At tha time whenever a possibility of American troops or marines entering Mexico was mentioned every rebel officer bristled with resentment and declared that any attempt of the American government to interfere in Mexico would result in the unification of all factions to resist the common enemy. .When Gen. Carranza was approached by a representative of the International News Servioe for a statement

ance of his order sending the entlr Atlantic fleet to Tampico. every vessel in the fleet had reported that it bad received the order and would be under way within thirty hours. Fleet Sails. The 'second move in the American government's gigantic game of diplomacy backed by the mailed fist of ' one of the most powerful navies in the world, took place today when the major portion of the Atlantic fleet sailed from New York. Philadelphia, and Norfolk for Tampico. Mexico. A statement issued by administration officials here today detailed a number of ' insults to the American flag presented by Huerta's officials. It is to force apologies for these insults that the Atlantic flaet has been sent to Mexico.. The question nat? urally has arisen in official circles here as to what will happen if Huerta refuses to salute the flag at Tampico and to apologize for the other direct insults to the American government. Three alternatives present themselves: A blockade of all the Mexican ports, the landing of marines "to protect American interests." or a declaration of war. The first of these would entail great danger to Americans ia Mexico, and the second probably would lead to war which would be entirely foreign to the "peace policy" of the present administration. Th next move in the the game of diplomacy is causing Washington officials considerable perplexity. It is admitted here that the administration has sent th fleet to Tampico in the hope that the sight of the American dreadnoughts in fighting trim may scare Huerta into apologizing. If this does not occur the President and his cabinet will face the most serious situation 4he government has had to contend with since 189S.

ship's mail, was arrested and jailed by Mexican authorities. He subsequently was released and nominal punishment was inflicted upon the officer who made the arrest. The most serious offence of all. however, was the forcible censorship by the Huerta government of an official j despatch from the state department to unarge u snaugnnessy. This incident, made public for the first time today, occurred a few days ago when the official in charge of the telegraph office at Mexico City presumed to withhold an official despatch of the government of the Untied States to its embassy at Mexico Citr until it should have been sent to the censor and his permission received to deliver it. Huerta officials gave the despatch to O'Shaughnessy only upon his personal and emphatic demand, be having learned through other channels that a despatch had been sent to him which had not been received. These repeated offenses against the rights and dignity of United States, offenses not depuicated with regard to the representatives of other governments, have made the Impression that the government of the United States has been singled out for manifestations of ill will. on the Tampico matter he was reading a number of dispatches from Gen. Villa telling of the sweeping victory by the rebels over the Federal troops at San Pedro de Las Colonies. Coahuila. "I may issue a statement later as to the Tampico affair." said Oen. Carranza. "but not at present. You may I say that I regard the victory at San Pedro as one of the greatest won for j the people of Mexico since the revolution began, three years ago. Judg- ! ing from the dispatches.' the victory has been complete. QUARTET MAY GO TO UNION CITY V." Inability to make railroad connections prevented the Honeywell double ' quartet which sang at the tabernacle services durlug the evangelistic campaign In this city from going to Union City last night, where Rev. Honeywell is conducting a aeries of meetings. J. H. McAfee, who has charge of the quartet, said the Union City people had made repeated requests for the singers to visit them, and that they might arrange to make tbe trip some ; Sunday before the revival closes. I